Children's Shows

I get up around 8am and my boyfriends daughter asks if she can watch some Netflix.
I tell her that she can as long as she watch the "kids" version.
As I am walking around trying to get some breakfas
t going, she picks a show. I hear one of the characters say something to the effect of "omg that outfit is so ugly." When I look at the characters they are 10 year old divas wearing every accessory you can and leather jackets with beetles t-shirts underneath. I thought it was crazy when people of my generation wore beetles schwag. But that character and the TV was a few generations off from being able to be a beetles fan.
Anyways, as I watched for these 10 year olds looked like they put more time and money into their outfits than I did in a couple weeks. Of course I know that this is just a TV show, but do children really know the difference. Is this what kids think they should look and act like?

I asked Kenzie if she could find a different TV show and the same thing. The little girls talking about superficial things with outfits that looked like something some 30 year old would wear going out on the town. 

I can see that his daughter buys into these shows encouraging girls to worry about their clothing and image choices. This little girl shops with her grandmother more in a week than I do in a year. She always wants to go get new clothes.

I remember being similar to her when I was 12-15 but not when I was seven years old! 

It's scary how young kids are encouraged by what they see on TV to be so materialistic. Even if you do not allow your child to watch any of these shows, other kids in schools who are allowed to watch these shows will influence your child.

I know that my changing point as a kid worrying about materialistic things is when I had to become more independent. Soon these clothes and shoes that were free came at a price. I definitely learned to appreciate the sale racks after that and soon realized that my hobbies were more important to spend money on rather than materialistic things.

Maybe that's what it takes for kids to realize the actually cost of these things they "need."